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Carmel High mentor program pairs incoming ninth-graders with trained upperclassmen to ease transition
Summary
Carmel High School's mentor program, presented at the Oct. 29 Carmel Central School District Board meeting, matches incoming ninth-graders with vetted upperclassmen (about 140 mentors this year), including bilingual mentors, and uses data-driven matching and quarterly check-ins to support students' social and academic transition.
CARMEL, N.Y. — The Carmel Central School District on Oct. 29 highlighted a long-running mentor program designed to help incoming ninth-graders settle into the high school.
Joanne, an English language arts teacher who advises the Mentor Program, told the Board of Education the program began about 2011 and now includes roughly 140 mentors. “Everybody gets a mentor,” she said, describing a process that uses a Microsoft Form QR-code to collect eighth-graders’ hobbies, personality types and mentor…
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